Modern Art Hist. Final

study exam one and two as well

Bauhaus Building

Walter GROPIUS (German), Dessau, Germany, steel and reinforced concrete, Bauhaus

The “Wassily” Armchair

Marcel BREUER (Hungarian), tubular steel and fabric, Bauhaus

Desk lamps

Marianne BRANDT (German), lacquered steel, Bauhaus

Light Prop for an Electric Stage

László MOHOLY-NAGY (Hungarian), kinetic sculpture (mixed media), Bauhaus

Cover for Bauhaus magazine

Joost SCHMIDT and Lotte BEESE (German), letterpress (caption: “young people come to the bauhaus!”), Bauhaus

Battle of the Fishes

André MASSON (French), mixed media, Surrealism

Exquisite Corpse

Man RAY (American), Joan MIRÓ (Spanish), and others, ink and crayon on paper, Surrealism

The Treachery of Images

René MAGRITTE (Belgian), oil on canvas, Surrealism

Children’s Games

Dorothea TANNING (American), oil on canvas, Surrealism

Store, Avenue des Gobelins

Eugène ATGET (French), photograph, Surrealism

Portrait of Space

Lee MILLER (American), photograph, Surrealism

Object (Le Déjeuner en fourre)

Meret OPPENHEIM (Swiss), fur-covered cup, Surrealism

Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void)

Alberto GIACOMETTI (Swiss), Bronze and Plaster versions, Surrealism

Girl Before a Mirror

Pablo PICASSO (Spanish), oil on canvas, Surrealism

Guernica

Pablo PICASSO (Spanish), oil on canvas, Surrealism

My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree)

Frida KAHLO (Mexican), oil on canvas, Surrealism

The Two Fridas

Frida KAHLO (Mexican), oil on canvas, Surrealism

Self Portrait with Cropped Hair

Frida KAHLO (Mexican), oil on canvas, Surrealism

Woman of Tehuantepec

Tina MODOTTI (Italian), photograph, Social Realism

Worker’s Hands

Tina MODOTTI (Italian), photograph, Social Realism

History of Mexico: From the Conquest to the Future

Diego RIVIERA (Mexican), fresco at National Palace, Mexico City, Social Realism

Detroit Industry

Diego RIVIERA (Mexican), fresco, Detroit Institute of Arts, Social Realism

Cover design for the journal FIRE!!

Aaron DOUGLAS (American), lithograph, Social Realism

Into Bondage and Aspiration

Aaron DOUGLAS (American), oil on Masonite, Social Realism

The Migration Series

Jacob LAWRENCE (American), tempera on board, Social Realism

White Angel Breadline

Dorothea Lange (American), photograph, Social Realism

Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

Dorothea Lange (American), photograph, Social Realism

Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Walker EVANS (American), photograph, Social Realism

Floyd and Allie Mae Burroughs

Walker EVANS (American), photograph, Social Realism

Contemporary American Sculpture

Ben SHAHN (American), tempera on board, Social Realism

This is Nazi Brutality

Ben SHAHN (American), lithograph, Social Realism

Worker and Collective Farm Worker

Vera MUKHINA (Russian), stainless steel (at Soviet Pavilion, Paris), Soviet

Soviet Pavillion, World Expo, Paris

Boris IOFAN (Russian), Soviet

German Pavilion, World Expo, Paris

Albert SPEER (German), Nazi

Cover to the Degenerate Art exhibition catalog

ANONYMOUS (German), lithograph, Nazi

City Square

Alberto GIACOMETTI (Swiss), bronze, Postwar

Autumn Rhythm

Jackson POLLOCK (American), oil on canvas, Postwar

Sharecropper

Elizabeth CATLETT (American/Mexican), linocut

Total Artwork

making use of many or all art forms

Functionalism

the design of an object should be determined by its function rather than by aesthetic considerations

André Breton

wrote the Surrealist Manifesto

Sigmund Freud

founder of psychoanalysis. provided the inspiration, confidence, and opportunity for the Surrealists to explore and advocate for the imagination and other strange forces of the mind

The Interpretation of Dreams

book written by Freud on dream interpretation and the unconscious mind

Psychoanalysis

aims to treat mental conditions by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind

The uncanny

psychological experience of an event or thing that is unsettling in a way that feels oddly familiar

Commodity Fetishism

the perception of the economic relationships of production and exchange as relationships among things (money and merchandise) rather than among people

Automatism

the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention

Exquisite Corpse

A game in which each participant takes turns writing or drawing on a sheet of paper, folding it to conceal his or her contribution, and then passing it to the next player for a further contribution.

José Vasconcelos

Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician who influenced the Mexican Revolution and its cultural policies

Fresco

the art of painting on wet plaster with water-based pigments

Alain Locke

leader of the Harlem Renaissance

Federal Art Project

a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States

Farm Security Administration

a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States

Roy Striker

American photographer that headed the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression, and launched the documentary photography program of the FSA

Abstract Expressionism/ New York School

an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City